I would. The system is on its way from noon to 6 00 tonight. The cloud cover will keep us on the cool side. Theres a lot going on the next two days. Impressive rain totals north of the golden gate. Maybe even on the peninsula. One forecast is predicting two thirds to three quarters of an inch. It looks promising. Upper 40s for some to the north. 7 01. Sal tells us the wednesday morning commute is it is moderate. Okay. Better than yesterday. Okay. But you said that the afternoon commute, the evening commute will be affected by rain. You may want to factor that into your plans if you dont want to be driving home in the rain. You might want to think about using transit. 80 westbound right now, carquinez bridge to the maze, 34 minutes, which is about typical. Yesterday it was much more than that because of some issues. Today it looks better. When you get to the toll plaza, it is backed up all the way to the maze. Once you make it on to the bring, it looks good. This is a look at interstate 880 near oracle. Traffic is moving well. It gets crowded up by hyde street. At sunol boulevard, there is a new crash. Paramedics are in route to the accident. It is slowing down. If the crash is out there for any length of time, it might slow down to the dublin interchange. The south bay commute is filling in. 7 02. Back to the desk. This morning, investigators are working to find out what caused a fire overnight in San Franciscos west portal neighborhood. A fire breaking out in a building on west portal avenue shortly before 11 00 last night. Alex savidge joins us live in the neighborhood with more. Alex. Reporter good morning, frank. This fire broke out late last night. Firefighters stayed here at the scene throughout the night, just to keep an eye out for any hot spots. We will push across the street and you can see you have an area that is taped off. This fire burned through three different businesses. All next to each other here on west portal avenue near vicente street. A neighbor shot this video of the fire shortly after it started at 11 00 last night. The Hardware Store was badly damaged in the fire. In fact part of the roof collapsed. The fire also damaged the sloan square beauty salon and the west portal daily which is a news stand and grocery store. This was a three alarm fire. Additional crews were called in from around the city because the buildings in the area are so close together and share a common attic. There was concern about the fire spreading. One neighbor we talked to, he was certainly worried about the fire spreading to the building that he lives in. Well, there were embers coming off of the fire from there. And we were kind of concerned that it was going to you know, that the wind was going to bring it over to our roof. So, yeah. Theres definitely there is a concern when there is a fire and you can actually look into it. Reporter now, this fire started late last night. Again, just before 11 00. All of these businesses were closed at the time. No one was in them. And nobody was hurt in this fire. Investigators now are trying to figure out exactly how the fire started. Although the San Francisco fire chief who was out here at the scene last night said that even though they are bringing in arson investigators, at this point there is nothing to suggest that the fire was suspicious in nature. Frank and gasia, back to you. Thank you, alex. Happening today the Bay Area Toll Authority will vote whether or not to put a proposed bridge toll increase on the june ballot. The plan calls for raising tolls by as much as three bucks on all bridges except the golden gate bridge. That means crossing the bay bridge could cost you 9 during the peak commute hours. If approved, it would be phased in in the next seven years. The plan does not include a 50 discount for drivers that cross more than one bridge a day. Extra money would be used for road repair projects. Amid much controversy and debate, San Francisco has a new interim mayor. Mark farrell was sworn in after a tense board of supervisors meeting. The board voted 63 to appoint him to the position of caretaker mayor until the june election. Farrell replaces london breed. Farrell is a native san franciscan who was a lawyer and investment maker before becoming supervisor in 2011. Coming up at 7 30, we will hear from farrell about his plans for the office. Also more on calls of racism and sexism regarding his appointment. San jose mayor sam liccardo is in washington, d. C. This week talking about issues ranging from technology to climate change. He is at the federal Communications Commission today where he serves object an Advisory Committee related to broadband. He has campaigned for new rules to have rural areas and low income areas to have access to high speed area. He will be meeting with mayor where he will speak on Broadband Access and the fight against climate change. Robert mueller is looking into whether President Trumps actions in office obstructed an investigation into contacts with russia. This news comes after attorney general Jeff Sessions was questioned under the probe. More on that and how the investigation is getting closer to the oval office. No, im not at all concerned. Reporter President Trump shrugging off news that attorney general Jeff Sessions became the first cabinet member to answer questions in the russia investigation. That news was quickly overshadowed but a series of Text Messages between two top fbi officials who seemed skeptical that the investigation would ever uncover any wrong doing. Agent peter strauk who has been demoted wrote to lisa page, quote, you and i both know the odds are nothing if i thought it was likely i would be there. No question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern theres no big there there. Democrats say republicans are doing everything that they can to discredit the mueller probe. I think there has been a great deal of activity on the other side intending to either divert attention from mueller or even stand in his way. Reporter other fbi texts referred to Unfinished Business in the Hillary Clinton case. Congressional republicans conducting oversight smelled smoke. I care a lot about the department of justice and the fbi. And it breaks my heart that we have to have this conversation about two agents who had no for clearing him. They are under fire for texting antitrump messages. Now the president tweets, where are the 50,000 important messages between lisa page and peter, blaming samsung. Griff jenkins reporting. The fbi is blaming the lost Text Messages on a technical glitch. Congress has not given up the search. A hit and run crash happened in walnut creek on north main street and Second Avenue off of interstate 680 and treat believed. Two pedestrians were injured and taken to the hospital by ambulance. Police say they did catch the hit and run driver a short distance away. They are not releasing any other details right now. The time is 7 08. There were two small earthquakes in santa cruz county. A magnitude 3. 6 earthquake struck after 10 00. And then a 2. 7 not far from the first. They happened in the Santa Cruz Mountains outside of watsonville. There is no reports of any damage which is what you would expect. Some people in the bay are complaining that they didnt receive emergency alerts when the tsunami watch was issued early yesterday morning after the quake in alaska. Even though the San Francisco department of Emergency Services tweeted out about the watch. Quote, if you are within San Francisco and three blocks of the Pacific Coast or five blocks of the bay, prepare to evacuate. Thats because the experts werent sure yet if there was actually a tsunami coming our way. But they wanted people who had opted into the system to be ready to leave if a tsunami was detected. What that means is that the possibility of a tsunami is being evaluated. And it is not a confirmed event. Here in San Francisco we have alert sf and you can opt into this. If youre not opted into the system, you wont get the alerts from the system. State lawmakers are now proposing a single system for all of california that could be used for all kinds of emergencies and they want it to be able to precisely target danger zones to a particular area. A program will make their homes safer in an earthquake. They are the latest homeowners in nearly 50 communities across the state who can apply for grants of up to 3,000 to help pay for earthquake retrofitting. Theyre offered by the brace and bolt program. The money must be used to help strengthen the foundations of homes in designated zip codes. The program has been beyond way for seven years. It is in effect in parts of berkeley, redwood city, San Francisco, oakland and daly city. Property owners have until february 23rd to apply for the money. You will find the complete list of cities and where to apply by going to ktvu. Com and clicking on web links. Coming up at 7 10, we could see protests in San Francisco later today. Up next, the possible tuition hike for some California College students. Also the Silicon Valley has a major presence on capitol hill. Why googles Parent Company is outspending everyone else. The fog is an issue for the morning commute, for some anyway. Here is a live picture of highway 4 pointing towards concord. You can see that the traffic that is a cool shot. Traffic is moving well, seemingly into a valley of fog. And we have fog even in San Francisco, on some of the bridges. Were waiting for rain that will be here later this afternoon. Fort the morning, yes, it is the fog for most. 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October wildfires delayed the action but the city of santa rosa is moving forward with plan thats will likely alter the makeup of the city council. The board held the idea on electing Council Members by geographic by june of last year. But the wildfires disrupted the election process. The council is going ahead with the new voting system. It is designed to reflect the community and increase the chances of having latino Council Members. Sonoma county supervisors are voted by districts, santa rosa districts have been chosen in city wide races. The bay bridge commute alone has been better than yesterday because of the technical glitch. Yeah. It is better today. Mike mibach is complaining to me here about his commute. So it wasnt all it wasnt all roses and whatever the analogy is. Lets take a look i dont know what it is. Starting with the south bay. You can see slow traffic on 280 and 101. We can push in a little bit here. I can move the map in. Traffic is moving along pretty well. There have been no major issues driving through. Gasia mentioned the commute on the east shore freeway and the macarthur maze because of the glitch yesterday in the metering lights. This mornings commute has been much better. I think that people are back to normal. Yesterday we had an arrow on a car that was barely moving. The car we pick a random car to see how far it moves. Yesterday in my traffic report, the arrow was there and the car did not move. Now you see the car moved a few car lengths. Thats all were asking for on a regular commute. This say look at 880 north and southbound. The traffic is moving along well here. We knew the backup would grow. It has grown to the dublin interchange. You need extra time if that is why you are commute. 7 16. Lets bring in steve. Thank you kindly, sal. Youre welcome. Lets get right to it. What is new sticking out of the fog, Sales Force Tower. There is a lot of fog to go around. It is not widespread but theres a lot going around. Up above were getting increases clouds but a few breaks in the clouds. Were waiting for the front that will be here later on. Chad says foggy and cool at balboa high field. Happy wednesday. Happy wednesday to you. I salute your avitar. 300 feet visibility in crockett in the strait. The front is slowly slowly i turn. Step by step. It is on its way. It will get here but not until later this afternoon. Just now beginning to knock on the door towards the mendocino coast. Come on in. Who is there . Go away. Its on its way. Again, for the morning, it is the fog that you have to worry about. Thank you, jeff. Not for the for the afternoon. It will be the rain. Winter storm warning is out. Above lake level there could be one to three feet. Below, down to 3,000, three to eight inches of snow. Not just the sierra or shasta but also lake county, down to 2500 feet. A Winter Weather advisory is out for you folks later today and goes into tomorrow. A lot of cloud cover in advance of it. If you say i have to run some of the chores early, go early but watch out for the fog. 38 seems popular, morgan hill, gilroy. Low 40s in soquel and santa cruz. Felton at 39. And campbell at 39. So some of that cold air will get trapped with highs staying cool today. 37 truckee. Ukiah at 49. Snow just beginning to move in towards mount shasta. We have a ways to go. That wont be until this afternoon. The front is packing pretty good cold air behind that. That will play into the weather tomorrow. More hail reports tomorrow. Tonight it will be rain. Some of the rainfall looks to be heaviest north of the golden gate where one to two inches could easily fall. More than that north of cloverdale. Lets hope we get a third to two thirds of an inch in san jose. We need it. A soft 60 down by morgan hill. Santa rosa at 50. Ukiah may be 49 on the high. Rain is on the way for later this afternoon and tonight. And then warmer and drier by the weekend. Thank you, steve. The time is 7 18. 5million for a 30second commercial and the nfl is rejecting an ad for the upcoming super bowl. Why they said no to a veterans group. A new study says that hot yoga may not be the case. Why more sweat doesnt always mean a better workout. The time is 7 21. Some people who practice yoga believe they get a better work out when they do hot yoga. There are claim thats hot yoga burns more calories and cuts the risk of heart disease. Now a study says that the benefits could be overstated. A study shows there was little difference in the heart health of those who practiced yoga and hot yoga. Both works your muscles, heart and mind. So it is all good. It is all good. Pam cook is big into yoga and our business news. New senior have a survey out on top jobs. Yet. Netflix continues to do well. It gained nearly 23 a share, 10 . Now trading at a new high of 250 a share. When the opening bell rang this morning, the s p 500 started at another record high thanks to netflix in part and another batch of strong corporate earnings. Im keeping an eye on the numbers right now. All three are up. The dow, the nasdaq and the s p 500. Theres the dow, up more than half of a percent. 146 points. 26,357. The nasdaq up a quarter of a percent. Online employment site glassdoor just released its annual list of the top 50 jobs in america. For the third year in a row, number one is the high tech job of data scientist. Median based salary there, 110,000. Second is a type of computer engineer who works with Software Developers and system operators. Their median based salary, 105,000. And rounding out the top five, marketing manager, occupational therapist, and hr manager. The criteria for the list includes earning potential, satisfaction rating and the number of job openings. Business leaders spend a lot of money every year lobbying federal lawmakers. Last year a bay area tech company spent more than any other company. Googles Parent Company alphabet allocated 18 million to persuade and support members of congress, the white house, and federal agencies in 2017. Google was most interested in tax reform, immigration and antitrust issues. Facebook, amazon and apple also set new Company Records for the amount of money spent on lobbying last year. There is a new king of beers. The one known as the king of beers has been dethroned. According to beer marketing insights, budweiser is no longer among the top three best selling beer in the u. S. In 2017, bud light was number one. Coors lite, second, miller lite third followed by budweiser. The publication says overall beer trends suggests that people are drinking less beer or switching to craft beer, wine or spirits. I actually dont see anyone drinking any of those beers. We have a lot of loggers, right. And locally made. Yeah. Im more of a craft beer guy myself. Craft beers. They do have very good advertising. They spend more money advertising than on the beer. We will see them on the super bowl im sure. 30 million or something a minute. Thank you, pam. 7 25. Reusing a piece of the old bay bridge. A proposal for the old eastern span. It could happen sooner than many expected. Reporter S